Tony: Only the “Reporting” of Aaron Barnhart Offends Me

Like a bad sitcom, the Kansas City Star is killing off some our favorite characters and replacing them with new cute and cuddly lies about their business fortunes turning around.

Worst of all Aaron Barnhart is still collecting a check and turning in copy that seems to come straight off the Entertainment Weekly wire. This fact needs to be stressed repeatedly: There is very little unique about what Barnhart writes for the Star that couldn’t be found (with better photos) on a myriad of Entertainment blogs. If the Star is a TV show facing its last days then Barnhart is The Great Gazoo.

In his latest opus that seems to be getting prime placement on Kansas City.com, Barnhart tackles the subject of an NBC sitcom calculated to generate headlines about being offensive. Sure, he finds a local connection and painfully stretches it out over hundreds of words. But leave it to this town’s so-called paper-of-record to note that a show supposedly offends people of Indian descent without every talking to any Indians. Again, let’s take special note to see this presser-like copy making the run of local media outlets:

John AltevogtApparently Pointed is one of the JOCO elite who feel that it’s still acceptable for the swells to fondle the hired help. Fine with me, you want to appoint Groper Carlsen to your boards and foundations and splatter his name on all of your buildings, be my guest. JOCO is my idea of hell on earth as it is.

PS, the clowns in editorial may have missed one of the biggest aspects of the story in their latest editorial.

John AltevogtOh, and thanks to Mr. Pointed for bringing up once again what a pack of sleazeballs the JOCO establishment are (is?, damn, I wish I still had one of my Star copy editors around, but then again The Star probably wishes the same thing).